Best Sound Card for Video Editing

[Enak]

Well I suggested them to my dad and he said they were a little on the costly side of things at the moment... but might be pursuaded in a couple of months!

[Hpar_]

I am going to have to go with the tb santa cruz as well. I got this card after dr_mordrid recommended it and it has worked great ever since. I had this pop/crack thing happening in the audio track when recording with a marvel g400tv/sblive combo and that turtle beach santa cruz card solved it like nothing.

Turtle Beach Santa Cruz is the best bang for the bux all around sound card out there.

[nunchalnaomi]

Hi,
Dr Modrid,

Have you used the luna or any other high end asio soundcards with analog capture with the rt.x100? I tried the m audio and it doens't work. My aardvark won't work. I had the snap and crackle with the audigy 2, hercules, onboard sound , and the maudio. The santa cruz works , but is not asio and is not all that great a card. I'm about to reformat and make a minimal install editing config, so my other programs,( mainly games) doesn't change settings. Is there a great audio card that works with the rt.x100? Or should I just be happy with the santa cruz. Money is not a consideration, having the best sound possible is. Some of the transfers I do are from concerts . I want the best quality sound possible anyway. thanks Nunchal

[nunchalnaomi]

beating a dead horse

Again,
Has anyone succesfully used a high end card with long analog video capture with the rt.x100? I don't care about cost, all I want is the best sound possible. I know this is beating a dead horse. I tried 4 or 5 other cards before getting the turtle beach.It works fine, but I would like a high end card with asio. Is the turtle beach the best working solution? Again money is not a consideration. Just the best possible sound. Nunchal

[Brambus]

Asio ... ?

I've no high end stuff, only an Audigy2 and it works really fine.
kX drivers for the Audigy2 give a better latency time than the original ones.

http://kxproject.lugosoft.com

But IMHO you will need ASIO only if you do multitrack HD recording (i.e. multiple tracks not in real time).
Hard disk recording needs a separate machine than video editing.
Putting things together will give you only the costraints and none of the benefits,a nd this and all the pop and crackles are often caused the PCI bus costraints that arise when you mix resource intensive hardware like ASIO cards and RT.X100.
Talking about Audigy2 and RT.X100, I've had crackles in Premiere Pro only with the original drivers when I set in the project settings the ASIO drivers instead of the Window default mapper.
But there was no need of such a setting - and bad audio drivers can make you mad.

If you don't do multitratck recording the converters quality is more important than latency. (There's a link two pages before.)
I use Audition and Audigy2 for my recordings (not live stuff, LPs backed up from a Quad 66/606 setup, KEF LS3/5A, Thorens turntable with SME IV arm) and they have never been affected by problems on my Stax electrostatic earphone. This is at least the verdict of my ears.
Beside this, the quality of the sound in analog video capture is heavily affected by the stuff you have before your audio card.

Brambus

[guylauten]

Most pop and click problems come from processor time-slice conflicts. These arise when the system is trying to do something other than just move audio data. Older, "soundblaster-compatable" cards (like the Santa Cruz) use IRQ5, and (more importantly) have it all to themselves. Newer, PCI based cards will be sharing an IRQ (usually 11) with other devices on the PCI buss. This gives rise to all sorts of time-slice conflicts that manifest themsleves as clicks. It seems the PCI audio card manufacturers haven't thought this one completely through. If your system already has a firewire port, and it's controller doesn't use IRQ11, you may consider going towards some of the external devices like the M-Audio 2496 Audiophile Firewire module. Good luck.